:00:26. > :00:32.are in Marsden, in the heart of the Pennines. Tonight we meet the rugby
:00:32. > :00:37.league players tackling the hidden problem of depression. How the world
:00:37. > :00:43.of sport is helping more than men to open up. Terry was very good at
:00:43. > :00:47.hiding his problems and you spoke to him you would think
:00:47. > :00:54.nothing was wrong. Also tonight, a hidden gem. Why this
:00:54. > :00:59.sometimes forgotten corner of the South Pennines should be celebrated.
:00:59. > :01:08.And the original super club. Why huge stars wanted to play at
:01:08. > :01:16.Sheffield's Fiesta club. It was the nearest thing to playing Las Vegas.
:01:16. > :01:20.This weekend has seen the climax of rugby's Super League but away from
:01:20. > :01:25.the glamour of the grand final, this tough sport has taken on a tough
:01:25. > :01:30.task, tackling high suicide rates in northern men. We sent George Riley
:01:30. > :01:32.on a journey to find out if sportspeople can help others to
:01:32. > :01:40.tackle bit hidden problem of depression.
:01:40. > :01:49.It got bad. It got to the point where I decided I did not want to be
:01:49. > :01:56.here. Daniel had made so many plans. It is the darker side of sport. And
:01:56. > :02:01.of life in the North. For so long it was hidden away, unspoken of.
:02:01. > :02:05.Suicide is by far the biggest killer of young men. It has become a
:02:05. > :02:09.talking point in rugby league, but even more so in our towns and
:02:09. > :02:13.cities. I am going across the North to try to find out why we are being
:02:13. > :02:20.league can show the way in offending suicide. —— weather rugby league can
:02:20. > :02:30.show the way. Leeds, Wigan, Bradford, Great
:02:30. > :02:35.Britain. Terry Newton was a massive name in rugby. What happened to him
:02:35. > :02:41.three years ago shook the sporting world. I got a phone call off Brian
:02:41. > :02:48.Carney, also good mates with Terri, and he said, I do not know for
:02:48. > :02:55.definite but I think there has been a terrible incident. I think Terry
:02:55. > :03:02.has hung himself. Terry Newton have been banned from rugby after taking
:03:02. > :03:09.a growth hormone. But still not even his best friends had any idea. He
:03:09. > :03:13.was very good at hiding his problems and feelings. If you spoke to him
:03:13. > :03:17.you would think nothing was wrong. We were all devastated. Rugby had to
:03:17. > :03:25.change and tackle mental health Rob 's head—on. —— problems head on.
:03:25. > :03:32.Bishop Burton College, wasteful Hull FC's Academy. This could be the most
:03:32. > :03:42.important piece of training they get. A talk from the charity State
:03:42. > :03:46.of Mind. The focus for us is if you can get people to be mentally fit,
:03:46. > :03:50.deal with the ups and downs of life, you may not feel overwhelmed
:03:50. > :03:58.in those situations where you feel there is no other way out. Phil is
:03:58. > :04:02.an NHS practitioner. Jimmy Gittins is a former recessional player, who
:04:02. > :04:06.was initially paralysed after breaking his neck. His physical
:04:06. > :04:15.injury led to a psychological battle. What I had been given as a
:04:15. > :04:19.prospect of life I did not want. I don't suppose anyone would. I asked
:04:19. > :04:25.my brother to put a pillow over my face. Clearly, my situation was
:04:25. > :04:29.quite horrendous. I would not wish it on my worst enemy. But at the end
:04:29. > :04:34.of the day it is the card I have been dealt and I have to get on with
:04:34. > :04:41.it. But even without an horrific injury, professional sport brings
:04:41. > :04:44.huge stress. Many suffer depression. There were times I felt low and I
:04:44. > :04:50.did not realise it was the stress of the job and the depression I got
:04:50. > :04:55.into. We live in a match, tough game and it is almost to be to feel
:04:55. > :05:03.weakness, physically and emotionally. When we first began, we
:05:03. > :05:09.noticed that the suicide rate in all rugby league areas was higher than
:05:09. > :05:13.the national average. Do we have a bigger problem with suicides than we
:05:13. > :05:19.do in other areas of the UK? If you draw a line across the country below
:05:19. > :05:26.Sheffield you do find a higher rate above that line. It is 20% higher
:05:26. > :05:30.than in London. There is a number of reasons. What are the factors? I
:05:30. > :05:36.have come to the North East, where there is a higher rate in suicide
:05:36. > :05:44.among men than in other parts of the UK. I am meeting a mother who
:05:44. > :05:49.overnight became an expert. Daniel was 20, he was very popular. We went
:05:49. > :05:55.shopping one day and left Daniel at home. We returned home that day and
:05:55. > :06:05.found him and he had taken his own life. He was just an ordinary, happy
:06:05. > :06:08.young man. Sometimes he would be down in the dumps, but nothing that
:06:08. > :06:19.you would think that he was suicidal. I think that day will stay
:06:19. > :06:30.with us forever. There are some days it is easier to manage than others,
:06:30. > :06:35.but fundamentally, it destroys who you are and your outlook on life.
:06:35. > :06:38.Daniel never spoke about his feelings so his family set up a
:06:39. > :06:45.charity to break Peter blew off talking about suicide. If U Care
:06:45. > :06:49.Share Foundation. The charity has three aims, the prevention of
:06:49. > :06:54.suicide through the training workshops, the prevention of
:06:54. > :07:00.suicide, and helping people touched by suicide. Unfortunately, the
:07:00. > :07:07.numbers that we are supporting increase and although we are only a
:07:07. > :07:12.small organisation we will hit the 200 mark this week of people touched
:07:12. > :07:16.by suicide. Why do you think there is such a high number in this area?
:07:17. > :07:22.A lot of people say it is because the employment rate and men's roles
:07:22. > :07:28.are changing but persistently the reason why we have a problem is it
:07:28. > :07:32.is still one of those real men do not cry or show their emotions. It
:07:32. > :07:39.is seen as a weakness to talk about your emotions. There is this culture
:07:39. > :07:45.of men together doing very physical jobs and I think we are still seeing
:07:45. > :07:50.the repercussion of that. Because in areas like this, the rugby league
:07:50. > :07:55.town of Gateshead, those jobs have gone. None has had depression for
:07:55. > :08:02.more than 50 years. —— Ronnie has had depression. My head was in such
:08:02. > :08:08.a state I just wanted to stop it. I took an overdose. I understand that
:08:08. > :08:14.you have discovered the best way to deal with it is by speaking about
:08:14. > :08:17.it. I am not shy to tell anyone I have tried to commit suicide. I
:08:17. > :08:24.believe you need to get it out of your system. How honest are you with
:08:24. > :08:30.your nearest Audie Rees? If you want to be on your own for a day, do you
:08:30. > :08:33.tell them the truth or make up an excuse? —— how honest you with your
:08:33. > :08:44.nearest and dearest? excuse. He was so open to talk to me
:08:44. > :08:49.but when it came to opening up to his family you found himself making
:08:49. > :08:54.excuses. It is August, Game 25 of the Super League season. State of
:08:54. > :09:04.Mind is targeting a number of high—profile games to attack high
:09:04. > :09:10.suicide rates in the North. His campaign has been recognised by all
:09:10. > :09:16.sorts of famous people, on Twitter. It breaks so many boundaries now. My
:09:16. > :09:22.father used to sit at the side of my bed and say, "Penny for 'em". He
:09:22. > :09:28.knew what I was thinking. He just needed to get it out. One of the
:09:28. > :09:35.particular games at that weekend, a person came up to us and talk about
:09:35. > :09:41.their political killer —— their political —— their particular
:09:41. > :09:47.circumstance. They said, I was contemplating taking my own life
:09:47. > :09:54.tonight and I do not think I will do that. —— they were talking about
:09:54. > :09:57.their particular circumstance. If you have any comment on that story
:09:57. > :10:01.all know and love the story you would like is to cover, get in
:10:01. > :10:10.touch. —— another story. Coming up, the top
:10:10. > :10:17.venue for the stars of the 1960s. We reminisced about the huge names that
:10:17. > :10:21.once played at Sheffield's Fiesta club.
:10:21. > :10:25.We all know how great this Pennine landscape is but isn't it about time
:10:25. > :10:29.the rest of the country did, too? Be South Pennines, which straddle
:10:29. > :10:32.Yorkshire and Lancashire, have never been designated a national park or
:10:32. > :10:44.an area of outstanding national beauty. —— natural beauty. We sent
:10:44. > :10:47.our reporter to find out why. We rightly celebrate our national
:10:47. > :10:55.parks as areas of beauty and splendour. They are the places that
:10:55. > :10:58.really do make Britain great. But the South Pennines, which inspired
:10:58. > :11:04.the Brontes and Ted Hughes, seems to have been forgotten. So I am going
:11:04. > :11:07.to take a journey across the rugged landscape to see why many people are
:11:07. > :11:14.saying we need to look at this part of the North with a fresh pair of
:11:14. > :11:18.eyes. The South Pennines stretches from Skipton in the north to Oldham
:11:18. > :11:23.in the south and takes in the wild moors of East Lancashire and deep
:11:23. > :11:27.valleys around Huddersfield. It is certainly a huge and diverse part of
:11:27. > :11:31.the country and it is one that people are really passionate about.
:11:31. > :11:36.Eagle feel that as soon as they get on a pony and riding out, and you
:11:36. > :11:43.are in this wonderful landscape, you forget everything else. All your
:11:43. > :11:49.worries disappear. For her —— from her farm high above Rossendale,
:11:49. > :11:52.Chris runs a pony trekking business, using betrayals that were once the
:11:52. > :11:57.lifeblood of the land. It is a beautiful landscape but it also has
:11:57. > :12:03.a sense of ruggedness and hardship. It cannot be easy working here. It
:12:03. > :12:08.is a hard landscape to work in but the fact that it is a real
:12:08. > :12:14.landscape, a working landscape, is part of the attraction. You do not
:12:14. > :12:18.feel you were going somewhere that is reserved. You feel it is actually
:12:18. > :12:22.still a work in progress. Today we take our national parks for granted
:12:22. > :12:30.but it is not that long ago that the idea of setting up the areas for the
:12:30. > :12:34.masses to enjoy it was new. In the 1930s this film was shown in cinemas
:12:34. > :12:38.to make the case that the countryside is for everyone, not
:12:38. > :12:42.just the landed gentry. It when the walls, live in Britain was changing
:12:42. > :12:49.fast and people needed a break from their hectic lives. How different
:12:49. > :12:53.are the fresh, clean air coming across the hills and Dales and the
:12:53. > :12:59.lakes offering their havens of peace. But this was heady, even
:12:59. > :13:03.dangerous stuff. The very thought of letting people like me lose in the
:13:03. > :13:07.countryside. In the late 1940s when the new national parks were being
:13:07. > :13:11.considered, the South, all industrial Pennines as it was known
:13:11. > :13:15.then, was on the short list. But back then this will still the engine
:13:15. > :13:23.room of the Empire and the factories were belching monsters. What didn't
:13:23. > :13:27.come from here came from Manchester and Bernie and Liverpool. The air
:13:27. > :13:33.here was black with soot and sulphur. The rivers ran different
:13:33. > :13:39.colours according to the die from dyestuffs that were being turned out
:13:39. > :13:43.of the local mills. Looking back on it, it was pretty disgusting. The
:13:43. > :13:49.South Pennines struggled to shake off its industrial past and was
:13:49. > :14:00.never selected to be a national park. But the area is much cleaner
:14:00. > :14:03.now. Moves are now taking place to acknowledge the area as a park with
:14:04. > :14:13.its industrial heritage at the forefront. Hello. I am poor. Nice to
:14:13. > :14:18.meet you. I am looking forward to this. I am taking to the railways to
:14:18. > :14:28.check out how the industrial revolution shake the landscape.
:14:28. > :14:33.Later on they had the early horse—drawn railways which were all
:14:33. > :14:38.developed around taking minerals to the new development works. By the
:14:38. > :14:45.time steam arrived things have moved on, leaving us with industrial
:14:45. > :14:49.relics. 150 years ago, this rail line through up huge challenges to
:14:49. > :15:00.the engineers charged with crossing the deep valleys between the Pennine
:15:00. > :15:06.hills. The line races over 100 feet in not many miles. It was a marvel
:15:06. > :15:15.of the Victorian age, leaving us with the Penistone Viaduct and its
:15:15. > :15:18.many arches. It is beautiful. We see it as beautiful now. I do not know
:15:18. > :15:24.whether they would have seen it as beautiful then but people came from
:15:24. > :15:40.miles. Even today this is great. 150 years old. But the railways and
:15:40. > :15:42.their spectacular viaducts aren't the only defining legacy of the
:15:43. > :15:48.industrial age. There are others which many feel are equal in their
:15:48. > :15:52.grandeur. I have never been in a canal tunnel before. This is the
:15:52. > :15:56.Standedge Tunnel at Marsden. It's more than three miles long, runs
:15:56. > :16:03.right under the Pennines and is the longest and highest canal tunnel in
:16:03. > :16:08.the UK. There is a great story about how they built this. The dog from
:16:08. > :16:14.each side and they missed each other by 30 odd feet, which is not very
:16:14. > :16:20.far in over three miles, can you imagine? It may be more than 200
:16:20. > :16:30.years old, but it has plenty of modern—day devotees like tour guide
:16:30. > :16:34.Michaela Morton. I felt really uplifted. It is a bit like going to
:16:34. > :16:40.a cathedral or an iconic feature in the world. Visually I find it very
:16:40. > :16:47.appealing. I love the smell. To think of all the people who worked
:16:47. > :16:52.here, not just building the tunnel, but also the people who worked on
:16:52. > :16:56.last tunnel, in order for it to function. Because it is hidden
:16:56. > :17:00.underground and it is a bit of a hidden gem, that makes it more
:17:00. > :17:05.special. You feel quite honoured to be part of it. Of course there is
:17:05. > :17:08.one thing that defines the Pennines, and has shaped the very landscape
:17:08. > :17:17.itself, and that's water. There's no denying that when it rains you feel
:17:17. > :17:20.every drop. The rain is getting more significant. I'm ending my journey
:17:20. > :17:22.at Stoodley Pike near Todmorden with someone who believes the South
:17:22. > :17:35.Pennines offer something rather unique. There are over 1000 listed
:17:35. > :17:40.buildings. They are down in the valleys, it gives you an indication
:17:40. > :17:46.of how people have lived here and earned their living. That
:17:46. > :17:53.settlement, you have the buildings that characterise this area.
:17:53. > :17:54.Chapels, a textile mill. Those windows upstairs were built those
:17:54. > :18:07.workshops. Just as we come valley, we are beginning to see the
:18:08. > :18:14.characteristic building types that make this place, landscape. Even in
:18:14. > :18:19.the rain, it makes me happy to be here. It has some power. So, what
:18:19. > :18:28.now for the South Pennines? And is it possible to unite Lancashire and
:18:28. > :18:32.Yorkshire under one banner? What we want to do is be recognised as a
:18:32. > :18:36.landscape that is as important as the Cotswolds or any other part of
:18:36. > :18:42.the country, and the people in the Cotswolds do not feel they have lost
:18:42. > :18:45.an identity, because that is a part of the world people instinctively
:18:45. > :18:50.know. Neither will people lose identity. If we were to rally around
:18:50. > :18:53.that idea of a regional Park in the south Pennines. You might argue,
:18:53. > :18:57.what's in a title? Does it matter what we call a place as long as we
:18:57. > :19:00.celebrate it? Well, I for one think the South Pennines, with whatever
:19:00. > :19:11.tag we eventually give it, should be shouted about from every hilltop.
:19:11. > :19:14.If you want to see the world's top acts on stage it could set you back
:19:14. > :19:18.hundreds of pounds for a ticket these days. And you'd have to cram
:19:18. > :19:21.into a soulless arena or a soggy field with thousands of others. But
:19:21. > :19:29.back in the late Sixties you could see them close up as Las Vegas came
:19:29. > :19:34.to the North of England. It was the back end of the swinging
:19:34. > :19:38.Sixties. Michael Jackson, the Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder and Roy Orbison
:19:38. > :19:40.were just a few of the stellar names who flocked to play here in
:19:40. > :20:03.Sheffield and here in Stockton—on—Tees. It was the nearest
:20:03. > :20:07.thing to playing Vegas. This man turned down Frank Sinatra because he
:20:07. > :20:10.wanted too much money. I want to know how he opened the Fiesta and
:20:10. > :20:14.turned it into the biggest nightclub in Europe. Back in his prime, Keith
:20:14. > :20:17.Lipthorpe and his late brother Jim toured with their band, and their
:20:17. > :20:21.experiences on the road inspired them to want more for audiences and
:20:21. > :20:28.artists alike. I'm on my way to where it all started, Stockton.
:20:28. > :20:31.Robert Mundy used to play in Roy Orbison's band. The superstar
:20:31. > :20:39.recorded a live album at the Stockton Fiesta club and would play
:20:40. > :20:46.there for weeks at a time. We were going there with Roy, a world star.
:20:46. > :20:52.He mostly stayed at the hotel. We did not go out much. We went down to
:20:52. > :20:57.the beach and took him along they are, which was truly unusual, he had
:20:57. > :21:03.never been to a northern beach. I think when people saw him they
:21:03. > :21:07.thought, it was not truly Roy Orbison, it was an impersonator. ——
:21:08. > :21:15.not really Roy Club Fiesta today. It's now a
:21:15. > :21:23.church. Once the North East's music fans came here to worship the stars.
:21:23. > :21:31.And the man who started it all has made a nostalgic trip back to tell
:21:31. > :21:35.me all about it. I decided I wanted to run a business of my own. I
:21:35. > :21:40.thought about second—hand cars or possibly a nightclub, so I tossed a
:21:40. > :21:45.coin and it came down on the nightclub said, luckily. Ireland is
:21:45. > :21:56.that quite a lot of the places I went to, there was no atmosphere ——
:21:56. > :21:58.I realised. The Fiesta experience wouldn't have been complete without
:21:59. > :22:02.the fawns, the glamorous hostesses who served the punters their food
:22:02. > :22:08.and drink. Sandy Whyte was a fawn and she never knew just what a night
:22:08. > :22:16.at work would bring. There were some weird and wonderful things went on
:22:16. > :22:20.in those days. There was a lion and a leopard. I took the lead bird on
:22:20. > :22:35.the stage. It ripped the dressing room carpet —— the Leopard. That was
:22:35. > :22:41.my life. Even the biggest stars did not always match up to their
:22:41. > :22:47.billing. Morecambe and Wise wanted £7,500 for two nights. They were
:22:47. > :22:58.wonderful on television, I would not say they died a death. The best act
:22:58. > :23:07.was Roy Orbison. At least 80 evenings. He has called and still
:23:07. > :23:09.did a wonderful show. The Lipthorpes planned to expand their empire
:23:09. > :23:12.beyond Stockton. Five years later, the Sheffield Fiesta opened. It was
:23:12. > :23:16.lavish, costing £500,000. There was to be a casino, a staff of 50, a
:23:16. > :23:19.resident band, and even an in—house newspaper. No more cabaret.
:23:19. > :23:26.Nowadays, here all the stars are all on screen. In Sheffield, this is
:23:26. > :23:29.what's left of the Fiesta club. Sat here, it's difficult to imagine that
:23:29. > :23:36.Michael Jackson once strutted his stuff just yards away while people
:23:37. > :23:44.ate chicken in a basket. But this is what it looked like in here all
:23:44. > :23:48.those years ago. At its height, the club's ambitions knew no bounds.
:23:48. > :23:54.They wanted the biggest stars in the world. And they didn't come any
:23:54. > :23:57.bigger than the King himself. Todd Slaughter's been the president of
:23:57. > :24:02.the Elvis Fan Club of Great Britain since 1967. This footage shows him
:24:02. > :24:08.meeting his hero just before his final concert in the early '70s.
:24:08. > :24:17.Todd tried to persuade Presley to play at the Sheffield Fiesta. Not
:24:17. > :24:25.only did the Fiesta want others to come to Britain, the record company
:24:25. > :24:30.millions of copies, but they knew if he touched our soil that would
:24:30. > :24:35.become 30 million. We know then there would have been a fabulous
:24:35. > :24:38.campaign to get the show 's televised and filmed or whatever. It
:24:39. > :24:42.was great for the Fiesta because that would have reinforced their
:24:42. > :24:45.brand around the world. Todd met Elvis's manager and father to
:24:45. > :24:48.discuss the Fiesta's offer. But it was never to be. Presley died weeks
:24:48. > :24:54.after this film was shot, having never set foot on British soil. For
:24:54. > :25:07.a young aspiring local singer, playing at the Fiesta was the
:25:07. > :25:11.pinnacle of his ambitions. I used to drive by the Fiesta and I used to
:25:11. > :25:19.see these big lights and I used to think, one day. I hope that I can
:25:19. > :25:24.play there. I thought that was it. Like the Palladium for me. Every
:25:24. > :25:31.week there was a world—famous act on their, from Tommy Cooper to the
:25:31. > :25:46.Beach Boys to the four tops. Ella Fitzgerald. Tony Christie as well.
:25:46. > :25:58.He recorded a live album there. He said, we should record this because
:25:58. > :26:02.it is part of your history. This earned me enough money to buy my
:26:02. > :26:05.first house. This is what I carried round the club for five years. Pat
:26:05. > :26:17.Bennett was a Fiesta fawn in Sheffield. 20 drinks on here. I
:26:17. > :26:21.worked six nights a week. I went in on the seventh as a customer. I
:26:21. > :26:24.lived and believed it until it closed down. Many couples got
:26:24. > :26:27.together with their husbands and wives at the Fiesta club, not to
:26:27. > :26:31.mention other people's. Pat Bennett met Patrick Wainwright while he was
:26:31. > :26:42.a doorman there, but it wasn't until 35 years later they actually got
:26:42. > :26:45.together. We had a mutual attraction that we could not get off the ground
:26:45. > :26:51.at the time. Wrong place, wrong time. It was something I never
:26:51. > :26:56.forgot. By the time we got back in touch, we had both been single for
:26:56. > :27:01.six years, so we seem to find each other at the right time. But in
:27:01. > :27:04.Sheffield, all was not well. After six glorious years, the financial
:27:04. > :27:16.backers had their say. If that wasn't bad enough, the staff went on
:27:16. > :27:19.strike too. I said, I cannot let the owners down, it is sold out. I
:27:19. > :27:22.crossed the picket line and did my concert. Of course, all empires
:27:22. > :27:24.crumble and the Fiesta was no different. Gambling laws, financial
:27:24. > :27:35.demands of the stars and the economic climate meant the club was
:27:35. > :27:40.no longer viable. After 11 years, the sums didn't add up and Keith
:27:40. > :27:48.parted company with the Club Fiesta. He went back to accountancy. Partly
:27:49. > :27:54.because the cabaret cost were so high. In the 11 years I was in the
:27:54. > :27:59.business, we all may had about two dozen nights when we were
:27:59. > :28:02.chock—a—block. We had losses of £87,000 at one point. For a while
:28:02. > :28:06.the Stockton Fiesta staged the world darts tournament. The clubs limped
:28:06. > :28:16.on for a few more years but cabaret had had its day. It must have been
:28:16. > :28:26.great while it lasted. That is all for tonight. Join us
:28:26. > :28:31.next week. A food writer investigates whether the food we buy
:28:31. > :28:36.is what it says on the tin. We look at whether best before dates are
:28:36. > :28:39.causing waste. And we travel to the liquor capital of England. ——
:28:39. > :28:45.liquorice.